Avengers Endgame Makes $1.2 Billion Box Office Debut
Avengers: Endgame has made box office history by taking a record-breaking $1.2bn (£929m) in global ticket sales in its opening run. The Disney blockbuster has become the fastest film ever to break the $1bn barrier, doing so in just five days. Endgame’s opening box office haul smashed the previous global debut record of $640m set [...]
The Last Jedi Takes Over $1 Billion
Star Wars The Last Jedi has dominated cinema screens across Christmas and New Year to inevitably break through the $1 billion box office barrier after just three weeks on release. By New Year’s Eve the much debated new chapter in the Star Wars saga had amassed $1,040 billion with half coming from the USA and [...]
Jurassic World Breaks Global Box Office Records
Universal has confirmed that Jurassic World officially surpassed The Avengers opening weekend haul of $207.4 million, with a new record high of $208.8 million just from American cinemas. The film has already pulled in over $511 million worldwide thanks to impressive hauls in China and across 66 countries. The film has now even eclipsed the [...]
The Inbetweeners 2 Kills The Expendables 3
The Inbetweeners 2 has made more the £22 million at the UK box office since it’s release just two short weeks ago. Last weekend alone the comedy sequel took in £4.31 million to remain comfortably on top of the UK chart. By sharp contrast the much anticipated third installment in The Expendables action franchise fell [...]
Del Toro Writes Pacific Rim Sequel
Guillermo Del Toro has confirmed that he has secretly been co-writing a sequel to Pacific Rim with Avengers writer Zek Penn, though the director admits that Legendary Pictures haven’t yet given the project a green light. “I’m working very, very hard with Zak Penn. We’ve been working for a few months now in secret. We [...]
Maleficent soars to top of US Box Office
Maleficent Disney’s live action re-imagining of Sleeping Beauty has topped the box office in North America on it’s debut, taking $70 million, officially giving star Angelina Jolie her biggest box office opening yet. The film successfully knocked X-Men sequel Days of Future past into second place and overcame mixed reviews from critics. Seth MacFarlane’s western [...]
Benedict Cumberbatch To Play Hamlet
Sherlock and Star Trek star Benedict Cumberbatch is officially set to play Hamlet on stage in London for a three month run in 2015. Cumberbatch will play the iconic lead in the eternal Shakespearean tragedy from August to October next year at the Barbican Theatre. Director Lindsey Turner greeted the casting news by describing the [...]
Iron Man 3 Tops 2013 Box Office
As 2013 draws to a close the box office results for the year have finally been counted, with Marvel sequel Iron man 3 topping the list as the year’s official highest grossing film. Taking over $1.2 billion in cinemas worldwide the third outing for Robert Downey Jr as the iconic iron suited superhero comfortably surpassed [...]
Skyfall Breaks UK Box Office Record
Skyfall, Daniel Craig’s third outing as Ian Fleming’s Martini swilling super spy James Bond has officially become the most successful UK theatrical release of all time. The new Bond film directed by Sam Mendes has broken the box office record previously held by Avatar, taking in an astonishing £94million after just a over a month [...]
The Avengers Takes Over $1.5 Billion
The Avengers has officially taken over $1.5billion at cinemas worldwide making it easily the top grossing film of 2012. The news largely overshadows the fact that The Dark Knight Rises became on the 13th film in history to surpass the $1billion mark at the box office. Since arriving in cinemas in May, The Avengers has broken several [...]